Q 01/05

Hitchcock shot Dial M for Murder in which format, a fading fad that most cinemas showed it without?

A) Stereoscopic 3-D

B) CinemaScope

C) Three-camera Cinerama

D) VistaVision

Answer · why

A) Stereoscopic 3-D

Stereoscopic 3-D was already out of fashion by the film's release, so most cinemas simply ran it flat. It was the first and only time Hitchcock shot a...

Q 02/05

In Dial M for Murder, what does Margot snatch from the desk to stab the intruder strangling her?

A) A fire poker

B) Scissors

C) A paper knife

D) A hatpin

Answer · why

B) Scissors

Scissors save Margot's life when she drives them into her attacker's back. Hitchcock fretted over the shot, complaining that the blades did not gleam ...

Q 03/05

Two years after Dial M for Murder, Grace Kelly quit acting to marry into the ruling family of which country?

A) Greece

B) Sweden

C) Monaco

D) Denmark

Answer · why

C) Monaco

Monaco gained a princess when Kelly married Prince Rainier III in April 1956, ending her film career at 26. Dial M for Murder was the first of her thr...

Q 04/05

Tony Wendice, the scheming husband in Dial M for Murder, is retired from which professional sport?

A) Cricket

B) Rugby

C) Fencing

D) Tennis

Answer · why

D) Tennis

Tennis was the playwright's own game, which he handed to his villain. He was good enough to aim for Wimbledon, but the outbreak of the Second World Wa...

Q 05/05

Which actor took over the murderous-husband role in A Perfect Murder, the 1998 remake of Dial M for Murder?

A) Michael Douglas

B) Harrison Ford

C) Tommy Lee Jones

D) Kevin Costner

Answer · why

A) Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas plays a Wall Street trader who wants his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, dead. The remake merges the lover and the hired killer into one man, p...